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Convergence
WEEK IN REVIEW
• • TOP STORIES CONVERGING INTO -
February
Todays Puzzle
-- is Google Going Into theWeb Browser
Business?
• •
90% of Google's users reach the Google
website via Explorer.
• • The move fuels talk that the
search engine might launch an effort to challenge
Microsoft's Internet
Explorer.
• • Google Inc. has hired the
chief engineer of the fast-growing Firefox Web
browser, fueling speculation that the online search
giant may challenge Microsoft Corp.'s dominant
Internet Explorer.
• • Until earlier this month, Ben
Goodger worked for the nonprofit Mozilla
Foundation, which is leading the Firefox effort and
other campaigns to develop software written by
large volunteer collectives.
• • Goodger's duties at Google
weren't disclosed. But the 24-year-old car
enthusiast, who grew up in New Zealand, wrote on
his blog that he would work on Firefox and "Web
browsing in general."
• • In part because of users'
concerns about the security of Internet Explorer,
the free Firefox browser has been downloaded 20
million times, winning a 5% share of the market
just three months after its first version for the
general public was introduced. • •
Mountain View, Calif.-based Google has long
insisted that it has no interest in building a
browser of its own. In October, Google Chief
Executive Eric Schmidt told the Financial Times
that his company was "not building a browser" and
didn't plan to.
• • Google spokesman Steve Langdon
said Tuesday that he couldn't make the same
declaration.
• • "We do not comment on
speculation about product development," he said.
"Many of Google's products aim to enhance the
browsing experience."
• • Google has hired other top
browser experts in the past. Now, the company might
be working on "a Google version of Firefox," said
Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch.
• • It makes sense for Google to
be keenly interested in Firefox, according to a
leader of that browser project, Blake Ross.
• • "Would you feel comfortable if
customers had to walk through your competitor's
shop to get to your own?" Ross wrote on his
website. "When there's one porthole on the ship,
everyone has to look through
it."
• • Indeed, roughly 90% of
Google's visitors reach the website via Explorer,
and Microsoft has in the past experimented with
redirecting lost Web surfers to its own search
engine.
• • Langdon said Goodger would
spend half his time on Mozilla Foundation projects.
Before joining Mozilla, Goodger worked for
Netscape, which introduced the browser to the
masses before Microsoft began including Explorer
with every copy of the Windows operating
system.
• • Goodger and a Microsoft
spokesman declined to
comment.
• • People following the
developments noted that the line between browsing
and searching was getting fuzzier. Google offers
such Internet Explorer extras as a "tool bar,"
which allows searching without leaving a Web page.
And Firefox presents Google as an initial page when
it's opened.
• • Google's success has prompted
Microsoft to invest heavily in its own search
engine, which is due for a major re-release in
about a week. The companies also produce competing
shopping and news services and tools for Web
diarists, known as
bloggers.
• • Google's stock fell $3.60 to
$177.12 on Nasdaq. Microsoft shares gained 35 cents
to $26.02, also on Nasdaq
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